Blue Marrow - Brossura

Halfe, Louise

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0771037775 ISBN 13: 9780771037771

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart, 1998

Riassunto

In Blue Marrow, award-winning poet Louise Bernice Halfe creates an intricate dance of language and voice. A contemporary narrator, a Cree woman, draws into her own story the poignant history of her ancestors and the Europeans they tragically welcomed into their lives. Blue Marrow is a book of vivid characters. Grandmothers both actual and spiritual are prominent in this moving tribute to Native female strength, but many other people, past and present, also appear: Native men and women, fur traders, Jesuits, Métis, all of whose stories interact in the drama of contact Halfe brilliantly renders. This is a book that celebrates the inheritance from generations past. It is both powerful and original, a collection of poems that cuts to the bone and then into the bone, to find the marrow. It establishes Louise Bernice Halfe as one of the most exciting new poetic voices in Canada today.

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Recensione:

“Louise Halfe has listened with reverent attention to the beautiful, strong voices of her Cree grandmothers, and has allowed her own voice to dance with theirs. Exuberant, disturbing, and always deeply moving, the resulting poems roar, whisper, shout, and sing on the page. This book is a gift. It is a privilege to read it.”
–Jane Urquhart

L'autore:

Louise Bernice Halfe’s first book of poetry, Bear Bones and Feathers, won the Milton Acorn Award for 1996, and was shortlisted for the Spirit of Saskatchewan Award, the Pat Lowther First Book Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, notably NeWest Review. She has been on “Morningside,” “The Arts Tonight,” and “Ambience.” Also known as Sky Dancer, Louise Bernice Halfe was raised on the Saddle Lake Indian Reserve and attended Blue Quills Residential School. She lives in Saskatchewan.

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• Editore: McClelland & Stewart
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0771037775
• ISBN 13: 9780771037771
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 104